I believe that an increasingly sophisticated audience will begin searching out and paying respect to those collections whose coherent structures organize the medium’s imagery in diverse and meaningful ways. […]
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February 23rd, 2025 | Tags: Clarence John Laughlin, Gudmund Vigtel, High Museum of Art, Lucinda Bunnen, Nexus Gallery, Sam Wagstaff, Wagstaff Collection | Category: From the Archives, Lectures, Photo History | 2 comments Photography collecting as a field is still at such an early stage in its development that in the late ’70s connoisseurship alone was deemed worthy of extensive media attention and considerable corporate/governmental patronage. Wagstaff’s cunning in getting sponsors to cover the promotional costs of a marketing enterprise clearly contrived to net him a small fortune raised no eyebrows I’m aware of, save my own. […] February 19th, 2025 | Tags: Chicago Photographic Print Fair, High Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Lucinda Bunnen, Sam Wagstaff, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Wagstaff Collection | Category: From the Archives, Lectures, Photo History | Leave a comment |
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Polaroid Collection: Update 4
What lesson can we extract from this? When an institution that houses any important photo/art collection gets into financial trouble, the photo/art community needs to sound an alert and, collectively and aggressively, monitor the situation and seek solutions thereto. The earlier the better. […]